The Prosecutor’s Office took possession of 543 head of cattle, 25 properties and a commercial establishment in the department of Antioquia.
Assets valued at more than 148,000 million pesos (about 37.2 million dollars) that were owned by the captured head of the Clan del Golfo, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel”, were occupied by the Colombian authorities to expropriate them because they were acquired with illegal money.
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The decision was made by the Specialized Directorate for Extinction of Domain Rights of the Prosecutor’s Office that “imposed precautionary measures on 560 assets” of “Otoniel” and Carlos Antonio Moreno Tuberquia, alias “Nicholas”, reported this Sunday the accusing entity.
The Prosecutor’s Office took possession of 543 head of cattle, 25 buildings and a commercial establishment, located in the towns of Mutatá, Apartadó, Necoclí and Turbo, in the department of Antioquia.
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The investigations made it possible to establish that the properties were supposedly bought with “Money from transnational cocaine trafficking, and other illegal activities directed by aliases ‘Otoniel’ and aliases ‘Nicolás’, “added the information from the Prosecutor’s Office.
To hide the origin, the properties were listed in the names of relatives and people close to the two leaders of the Clan del Golfo.
The goods affected with precautionary measures will be administered by the Special Assets Society (SAE).
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“Otoniel” was captured on October 23 in a rural area of Necoclí, where he had been surrounded for months, and “Nicolás”, said to be the second most important man in the Gulf Clan, was apprehended in 2018 in the Antioquia town of San Rafael.
The Colombian Police assures that the Clan del Golfo traffics an average of 20 tons of cocaine per month, an illicit drug sent abroad to 28 countries through alliances with other drug gangs. (I)
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